I found Liam Neeson's performance ill-at-ease and I am not surprised, this is not an accurate portrayal of Alfred Kinsey. Perhaps it is a movie that just should not have been made. The man did do ground breaking work on the sexuality of our species, but not without cost and some say not without undue influence on the results. He tolerated paedophilia and even employed sex offenders in his research. His own sexuality was ambivalent and he himself had some unsavoury episodes as a scoutmaster using his position of authority to engage in sexual activity with the young in his charge. That said, the overall feeling I had for the film was one big yawn. The monotonous performance of Laura Linney by itself is way better than a sleeping pill. The dangling threads you could trip over (what happened when his funding was cut off? why did they never finish the interview with him? what was the point of the creepy pervert he interviewed, etc. etc.). Even the ending fades away into nothingness. And I did not care. I did not engage with any of the characters and like watching a bad traffic accident in awful fascination, I just wanted to see how much blood there was at the end so I could turn away. 6 out of 10. What happened Liam? You can do much better than this.
Review of Kinsey
